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...joined a Web-based club whose members meet off-line to exchange tips. Not that he thought the film was that great. "What can I say?" says Choi, "I've got a stake in it." He expects his fund to yield a profit of more than 30% from ticket sales, export revenue, and video and online rights...
...phenomenon began late last year with the the blockbuster action flick Joint Security Area. More than 400 small investors put up $75,000 through an online fund and then watched their money double from ticket sales and other revenue. That caught the attention of stock market punters smarting from slumping share prices. When a similar online fund for Friends debuted in March, investors snapped up all shares in less than a minute. Friends might have been huge anyway - it has tapped a vein of nostalgia for a simpler era. But giving moviegoers a stake also helped. When the film flopped...
...M.P.A.A. ratings board got their hands on it," admits John Stockwell, who was midway through directing the movie last year when Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman launched their congressional assault on the entertainment industry for marketing adult product to children. Filmmakers around Hollywood who had been courting teen ticket buyers soon felt a chill. "The whole mood at Disney changed," says Stockwell, who was ordered by the studio to tame Crazy/Beautiful's R-rated script and deliver a PG-13 movie. In the final version of Crazy/Beautiful, opening this week, the heroine will no longer smoke pot onscreen...
...Some things about Fenway are just a little bit different. Where I come from, an usher is the 80-year-old man named Ernie at the movie theater who takes my ticket and reminds me to donate spare change to cystic fibrosis research. At Shea Stadium, where the Mets have languished under the roar of LaGuardia air traffic since the 1960s, all the ushers are brittle octogenarians dressed up in cute age-appropriate Mets gear—orange bow ties and suspenders. But at Fenway, the ushers double as beefy security guards, always ready to hustle up the bleacher stairs...
...times more jammed than China.) Don't be surprised if an enthusiastic Bangladeshi befriends you in the street and invites you home for tea and a meal. He will invariably ask for your address as a start to what he hopes will be an overseas friendship and, eventually, a ticket out. Many visitors soon discover Dhaka is a place they too want to escape. If that's the case, head for Kamalpur train station for a six- or seven-hour train trip to Chittagong and the south coast ($8 first class). Or take the bus and scare yourself silly with...